Mom (CBS, 9:30 p.m.) — If you’re not watching this, do so, but only until the first act break. It’s a fascinating disaster: every episode packs in approximately three dozen plots, and not even Anna Faris, Allison Janney, and Badger from Breaking Bad can save Boner Joke #83 from Chuck Lorre’s trapper keeper full of them.

LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Tom Hanks on Letterman; Drew Barrymore, D.L. Hughley, and the Avett Brothers on Leno; the cast of Modern Family on Kimmel; Zooey Deschanel on Ferguson; Dylan McDermott and Paul McCartney on Fallon; Kathleen Sebelius on Stewart; and James Spithill on Colbert.

… I’m really not sure whether to believe you or not. The recap on Wikipedia is written in terribly broken English, but could almost support your claim. And I desperately want to believe it, because it’s that or give up on Nathan Fillion at last.

Yeah the actor from a saved by the bell like show gets dead and they have to investigate. Just like the Castle ep that dealt with Firefly, well more directly than just having nathan fillion wear the outfit.

I much preferred Anna over Summer. Summer to me was always the girl fantasy for nerds that in the real world is just a vapid human being who nerds only see as the “trophy” they can’t have. Whereas, Anna was actually the dream nerd woman in that she was INCREDIBLY beautiful and a real nerd with real nerd interests. I always thought Summer/Seth would have been better as brother-sister because of their similar appearance and opposite interests.

It was around then that the writers began shaping her as a terrible person, making her interfere with the other character’s lives in ways that she shouldn’t have. I still enjoy Marshall and Lilly, but as time as gone on, How I Met has made everyone in the cast borderline-assholes, unintentionally so (unlike Seinfeld, where that was the point).

Yeah I think you’re right about how they ran with the “lily just loves to interfere and inject her opinions into everyone’s business” thing. They try to play it off as endearing and like this quality makes her the most loving and caring of the group, but it just doesn’t play that way at all.

And I was as much of “HIMYM sucks now” guy as anyone, but damn if these first two episodes of the final season haven’t been pretty great. I think it’s because Jason Segel looks like he actually gives a shit and is having fun again, probably because he sees the end in sight now.